733 research outputs found
Influence of dry density and confinement environment on the high strain rate response of partially saturated sand
No full textAbstract not availableShengzhe Wang, Luming Shen, Federico Maggi, Abbas El-Zein, Giang D. Nguyen, Yonggang Zheng, Hongwu Zhang, Zhen Che
sj-docx-1-pac-10.1177_18344909241228471 - Supplemental material for You are worth it: Social support buffered the relation between impostor syndrome and suicidal ideation
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-pac-10.1177_18344909241228471 for You are worth it: Social support buffered the relation between impostor syndrome and suicidal ideation by Ziyi Wei, Yifan Li, Luming Liu, Xinchun Wu, Zhihong Qiao and Wenchao Wang in Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology</p
Uniaxial compressive behavior of partially saturated granular media under high strain rates
No full textAbstract not availableShengzhe Wang, Luming Shen, Federico Maggi, Abbas El-Zein, Giang D. Nguye
Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric
No full textLuMing Mao offers an important discussion of the rhetoric of Chinese American speakers, which has wide implications for the teaching of writing in English and for our understanding of cross-cultural influences in discourse. Recent scholarship tends to explain such influences as contributing to language hybridity—an advance over the traditional deficit model. But Mao suggests that the hybridity approach is perhaps too arid or sanitized, missing rich nuances of mutual exchange, resistance, or even subversion. Through his concept of togetherness in difference, Mao suggests that speakers of hybrid discourse may not be attempting the standard (and failing), but instead may be deliberately importing cultural material to create a distance between themselves and the standard. This practice, over time, becomes a process that transforms English, enriching and enlarging it through the infusion of non-Western discourse features, subverting power structures, and even providing unique humorous touches. Of interest to scholars in composition, cultural studies, and linguistics as well, Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie leads in an important new direction for both our understanding and our teaching of English.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/1158/thumbnail.jp
FIGURE 1 in Chrysophycean stomatocysts from the Aershan Geological Park (Inner Mongolia), China
No full textFIGURE 1. Map of Aershan Geological Park. I: Daerbin Lake. II: Dujuan Lake. III: Luming Lake. IV: Xianhe Lake. V: Wusulangzi Lake. VI: Tianchi Lake. VII: Dichi Lake. VIII. Tuofenglingtianchi Lake. IX: Stone Ponds. X: Jinjianggou.Published as part of <i>Pang, Wanting & Wang, Quanxi, 2014, Chrysophycean stomatocysts from the Aershan Geological Park (Inner Mongolia), China, pp. 1-92 in Phytotaxa 187 (1)</i> on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.187.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10090151">http://zenodo.org/record/10090151</a>
Green consumption and message framing
No full textWhile research on green consumption has typically investigated how people choose green over non-green products, this thesis investigates consumers’ attitudes toward green product messages focusing on the environmental vs. utilitarian value of the product. The author argues that environmental (vs. utilitarian) appeals are more effective for consumers from socioeconomically defined lower classes because moral implications associated with environmental appeals provide a better opportunity for socioeconomically lower-class consumers to perceive their difference in terms of morality. Meanwhile, green product messages that focus on the utilitarian (vs. environmental) value of products may elicit stronger purchase intention for consumers who have higher (vs. lower) skepticism toward brands’ environmental claims.October 202
Detecting Densely Distributed Graph Patterns for Fine-Grained Image Categorization
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Fine-grained image categorization is a challenging task aiming at distinguishing objects belonging to the same basic-level category, e.g., leaf or mushroom. It is a useful technique that can be applied for species recognition, face verification, and so on. Most of the existing methods either have difficulties to detect discriminative object components automatically, or suffer from the limited amount of training data in each sub-category. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a new fine-grained image categorization model. The key is a dense graph mining algorithm that hierarchically localizes discriminative object parts in each image. More specifically, to mimic the human hierarchical perception mechanism, a superpixel pyramid is generated for each image. Thereby, graphlets from each layer are constructed to seamlessly capture object components. Intuitively, graphlets representative to each super-/sub-category is densely distributed in their feature space. Thus, a dense graph mining algorithm is developed to discover graphlets representative to each super-/sub-category. Finally, the discovered graphlets from pairwise images are integrated into an image kernel for fine-grained recognition. Theoretically, the learned kernel can generalize several state-of-the-art image kernels. Experiments on nine image sets demonstrate the advantage of our method. Moreover, the discovered graphlets from each sub-category accurately capture those tiny discriminative object components, e.g., bird claws, heads, and bodies.</p
Representations: doing Asian American rhetoric
No full textEdited by LuMing Mao and Morris Young.Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Performing Asian American rhetoric into the American imaginary -- Performing Asian American rhetoric in context. Transnational Asian American rhetoric as a diasporic practice / Rory Ong -- Reexamining the between-worlds Trope in cross-cultural composition studies / Tomo Hattori and Stuart Ching -- Asian American rhetorical memory and a "Memory that is only sometimes our own" / Haivan V. Hoang -- Listening for legacies or How I began to hear Dorothy Laigo Cordova, the Pinay behind the podium known as FANHS / Terese Guinsatao Monberg -- Learning authenticity: pedagogies of Hindu nationalism in North America / Subhasree Chakravarty -- Relocating authority: coauthor(iz)ing a Japanese American ethos of resistance under mass incarceration / Mira Chieko Shimabukuro -- Rhetoric of the Asian American self: influences of region and social class on autobiographical writing / Robyn Tasaka -- "Translating" and "transforming" Asian American identities. Artful bigotry and kitsch": a study of stereotype, mimicry, and satire in Asian American t-shirt rhetoric / Vincent N. Pham and Kent A. Ono -- Beyond "Asian American" and back: coalitional rhetoric in print and new media / Jolivette Mecenas -- On the road with P.T. Barnum's traveling Chinese museum: rhetorics of public reception and self-resistance in the emergence of literature by Chinese American women / Mary Louise Buley-Meissner -- Rereading Sui Sin Far: a rhetoric of defiance / Bo Wang -- Margaret Cho, Jake Shimabukuro, and rhetorics in a minor key / Jeffrey Carroll -- "Maybe I could play a hooker in something!" Asian American identity, gender, and comedy in the rhetoric of Margaret Cho / Michaela D.E. Meyer -- Learning Asian American affect / K. Hyoejin Yoon -- Afterword: Toward a theory of Asian American rhetoric: what is to be done
Research on Covid-19 Pandemic and Social Security
No full textPublic health security is one of the important areas of social security. When the author drew up this thesis, the novel coronavirus pneumonia broke out in the Wuhan area, wreaking havoc on the entire land of China. Macroscopically speaking, the damage caused by the epidemic situation to social security is not only in public health, but also has a profound impact on public opinion, economic production and so on. In this paper, the author will analyze the damage on social security caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in three aspects: physical damage, social economic loss, and public opinion turbulence, furthermore, discussing its countermeasures
Design and development of FMS software control systems
No full textFlexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) have been widely accepted by the modern manufacturing industries. However, in comparison with the capabilities of FMS hardware systems, the sophistication of software systems is still far away from the goal that we expected in order to realize optimum FMS control. The fact is that the rate of acceptance of FMSs actually far exceeds the rate of implementation of these expensive manufacturing systems. Therefore, the primary goal of this research is to advance software control capabilities of FMSs. To this end, the research has presented a new methodology as the framework for the development of FMS software control systems. First, to reduce the complexity of software development, the hierarchical control architecture exclusively used for FMS software control systems is designed and presented. Secondly, in order to systematically, precisely, and concisely represent the dynamic behaviors of FMS control, the research has introduced the Colored Petri Net (CPN) as the modeling tool and further developed a number of CPN models. In particular, the CPN models are developed for three FMS control levels: System, Workstation, and Device. Thirdly, an object-oriented design and development architecture, called FMS hierarchical foundation classes library (FMS/FCL), has been defined and further developed, which can significantly increase the reliability and reusability of FMS system control software. Finally, a graphic software verification prototype, called DDE Verifier, has also been developed in the research. It is believed that all these research efforts will make important contributions on the methodology of design and development of FMS software control systems
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